Lois Braunschweiger, who died Dec. 30, got her dying wish: to spend Christmas with her Portland family
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Marion County sheriff’s squad car crashes on Interstate 5
Two deputies were responding to a harassment call when they hydroplaned on I-5 and hit the center median.
Man convicted of murder in New Year’s Eve 2007 shooting
Jerrin Hickman will be sentenced Monday
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Victim identified in Hazel Dell convenience store shooting
Jose Guadalupe Muro, 29, of Vancouver, worked at the store. He is in the intensive care unit at Southwest Washington Medical Center; his condition is unknown.
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Eugene police seek ‘Deadliest Catch’ fisherman in series of bank robberies
Detective: “What an incredibly stupid thing to do to commit a bank robbery then go on a national TV show and make a spectacle of yourself and then come home and commit two more bank robberies.”
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Do you know how you’re getting home tonight?
New Year’s Eve can be a blast, but it can also take a bad turn quickly if you’ve been drinking. So before you head out the door this evening, make sure you have a plan on how you’ll get home.
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Trio charged with prostituting teen girls online
Three people from Eugene and Springfield face charges they recruited girls under age 18 as prostitutes, instructing the girls on how much to charge for various sex acts and using the Web site Craiglist to recruit clients.
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Wells Fargo execs denied cash bonuses
But the bank’s board awards the CEO and three other high-ranking executives performance-based stock awards worth a combined $25 million.
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In 1917, Oregon changed the game (Los Angeles Times)
The team’s last victory in the Rose Bowl — a 14-0 win over Penn — was more than an upset; it put the West Coast on the college football map. Oregon’s last Rose Bowl victory could be called the Great-Granddaddy of Them All.
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Denny West, Portland housing maestro, dies
West headed the Housing Authority of Portland from 1991 until 2001. He doubled the agency’s stock of affordable housing, adding about 3,700 units, and is credited with initiating New Columbia, which replaced the Columbia Villa housing project in North Portland
Posted in Local News Tagged breaking news, columbia, denny west, from-1991, headed-the-housing, housing, housing-authority, multnomah-county, north Comments closed
